Survivors of Las Vegas Shooting Were at Borderline Bar During Attack: Report

When shots rang out at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, Wednesday, it brought back dark memories of another night of chaos for some.

Many who frequent the bar, which was holding its "college country night," had been at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas last year when another gunman opened fire, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds more.

“There’s people that live a whole lifetime without seeing this, and then there’s people that have seen it twice,” Chandler Gunn, 23, told The Los Angeles Times, saying he knew several survivors of last year’s mass shooting were at the bar Wednesday, including a friend who works there.

The friend told Gunn that some type of gas was thrown into the bar, which that night was open to people 18 and over, and offered line dancing lessons.

Helus and a colleague from the California Highway Patrol arrived at the scene within three minutes of the first calls and entered the bar, where he "was struck multiple times with gunfire," Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said.

Helus leaves behind a wife and a son. He was hoping to retire in the "next year or so," Dean said.

“There are no words,” Savannah Stafseth, who was outside the bar when the shooting began, told the Times. “Those are my people. It’s just not fair. It’s just not fair. All these people after Route 91. It’s not fair.”